After taking the kettle, Shen Mu leaned to his nose and smelled it, and there was indeed no smell. Then Shen Mu walked to a pool of unmelted snow and looked at the kettle in his hand for a while.
The mouth of the pot is small, and the body of the pot is opaque. It can only be confirmed that the pot is filled with a liquid that is similar in texture to water.
Is it water? still…
Shen Mu thought for a while, tilted the kettle in his hand slightly, and poured a little liquid on the snow, a small piece of snow was immediately sunken, and there were faint red marks in the sunken place.
"Fuck, what is this! Strawberry juice?!" Zhao Xu was taken aback.
Of course Zhao Xu didn't really think it was strawberry juice: "What is this?... It can't be blood, the color of the blood is too light! (‵o′) Convex, careless! It should be thought of, others There's no food left, only this pot of water is left, there must be something tricky in it!" Zhao Xu licked his lips subconsciously, and the hunger and thirst just now have faded a lot - originally, a person who doesn't drink water for a day and a half can at most It is "thirsty", and there will be no physical discomfort.
— It’s just that I don’t drink water for half a day, and I will inevitably “feel thirsty” when I see the kettle.
"Damn, this, is this poison?" Zhao Xu took the kettle and poured it on the snow, more red marks appeared on the snow. Looking at the obvious marks on the snow, Zhao Xu couldn't help feeling numb in his heart. "Could it be that the water bottle we drink is... actually filled with poison? For example, if you don't leave here within a few days, you will die?... Damn, look at this pot!" Zhao Xu looked at the water bottle, becoming more and more sure Guess in my heart, "Look at it, the body of the bottle is so big and the mouth of the bottle is so small, if the water is not poured out, it is impossible to find that the color of the water is wrong! But there is no other container besides the kettle, who will be fine? Water poured out? And, and! Who would suspect that the system put water in the kettle? After all, there is no abnormality when drinking it!... If we can't finish this game within five or three days, we will... die here ?”
Zhao Xu: A look of despair. JPG
After listening to Zhao Xu's excited speech, Shen Mu was also stunned: "No, no, right?...I didn't think about it at all just now..."
But this is indeed a possibility. Although there are no other clues and evidence, if every jug of water has the same color, it is a piece of evidence in itself.
Shen Mu calmed down a bit: No need to guess, just look at the other water and you will know. And even if there is a real problem... Drink it all, and you can still get away from it.
However, Zhao Xu heard another meaning from Shen Mu's words, and he was also a little taken aback: "I didn't think about it? Then what do you think is the situation? Could it be..." Zhao Xu's eyes lit up, "This is strawberry bubbles Vitamin C in tablets?!"
Shen Mu: "...I think this might be the witch's poison?"
"Witch's poison?" Zhao Xu was stunned for a moment, "It seems that it's not impossible? But," Zhao Xu shook the kettle in his hand, his expression was indescribable, "Will the witch's poison be put in the military kettle? ? If you don’t have a crystal bottle, at least you have to have a round bottom flask or something.”
"No..." Looking at the clumsy shaking kettle, Shen Mu also felt it was nonsense, facing the kettle... Zhao Xu explained, "I mean, could the witch pour the poison given by the system into the kettle, Pretending to be ordinary water, trying to poison players passing by?"
Zhao Xu frowned, and seemed to be in troubled thinking: "Well...it seems possible from what you said. After all, only witches have something to do with medicine. But...in the end, witches' poison and antidote are nothing more than systemic medicines. A description of its function, right? It’s not really poison and antidote, if you want to ‘drink poison’ for people, you only need to click a little system?”
"Um…"
The wooden flute lay quietly in Shenmu's pocket. Since the Piper's flute is real, it's likely that the witch's medicine has also materialized.
...But of course innocent civilians don't know about this kind of thing ().
Moreover, there are loopholes in the hypothesis of "witch's poison". Shen Mu thought for a while: "Now there is a simple way to verify something. We just need to determine whether this bottle of water is unique or all water is like this." .”
"Yes, good idea." Zhao Xu nodded in agreement, "If the other waters are all clear, it means that this pot of water is indeed the problem, but the witch's poison is still not reliable, even if you don't say As I said just now, a witch's poison is just a pronoun. Even if there is such a thing, why would a witch keep her own poison here? Poison is a witch's weapon! Of course such an important thing should be carried with you. It’s even more strange that the witch stayed there on purpose to poison people to death, even the witches don’t know who will drink this pot of water, and poison them indiscriminately, what should I do if I poison my own people?”
Shen Mu agreed with Zhao Xu's statement: "Yeah, I was thinking just now, if this pot of water is really poison, how can it be considered as poisoning? Take a sip, or drink it all? Is it a small amount? Will it cause physical discomfort, or will it be effective after drinking it all? If it is the former, as long as you drink it, you will die. I think it is impossible, otherwise the witch will go against the sky. As the amount of poison drank increases..."
Shen Mu's eyes fell on the jug: "This kind of jug should hold 1 liter of water, not to mention in this environment, even in normal times, no one can drink it all at once, and after drinking it and feeling unwell, normal people can't drink it all at once. I won’t be so stupid as to continue to drink, which means that the poison can only exert a certain effect in this situation. If the person who gets the bottle of water only takes a sip, the other party will only feel slightly uncomfortable, and it is very likely that the remaining water will be poured out. water, which is a waste of too much."
"..." Zhao Xu's eyebrows twisted together, then loosened, twisted together, and then loosened again, "So it's still strawberry effervescent tablets, right?"
After finishing speaking, Zhao Xu suddenly looked at the pot in his hand, and took a sip from the mouth of the bottle!
"Zhao Xu! You?" The incident happened suddenly, and Shen Mu didn't expect such a scene to happen. In an instant, his hairs stood on end, and he snatched back the water bottle, "What are you doing! How are you?!"
"Ah, don't be nervous." Zhao Xu pursed his lips, as if he was studying the taste in his mouth, "I don't feel anything, and I'm deliberate. You're right, even if it's really a witch's poison, it can't be diluted. Keep the effect of taking a sip, so it is uncomfortable to take a sip of such a big pot of water, so what is this, taking a sip is the fastest verification solution!"
Shen Mu was silent for ten seconds: "What you said is correct...I haven't finished what I just said."
"Huh?" Zhao Xu was stunned for a moment, feeling a bad premonition.
Shen Mu sighed for a while: "I want to say that the color of the bottle mouth is so dark that you can't see anything after applying the poison, so it may be better to put the poison on the bottle mouth than to pour the poison into a pot of water." idea so that most of the
The poison went into the stomach. "
Zhao Xu: "...???"
Shen Mu: "So are you okay?"
"I, I'm okay... right?" Zhao Xu despaired, "I was fine at first, so you put it this way..."
Zhao Xu carefully felt the changes in his body: "It should be pretty good."
Is it really a strawberry effervescent tablet? Shen Mu couldn't help thinking.
"But this smell," Zhao Xu licked his tongue again, "like... the smell of rust?"
The smell of rust
Shen Mu looked at the water bottle in his hand, took out his mobile phone and looked at the player status interface, looked at the 10 players who were still alive, was speechless for a while, and finally couldn't tell whether it was sighing or depressed: "Looking at this situation, maybe we are all being killed. Played."
…
Shen Mu and Zhao Xu continued to walk towards the top of the mountain, and the kettle was obediently left in place.
"Why would someone add diluted blood to the water? What are you thinking?" Zhao Xu didn't mention his depression in his heart, "Do you want to scare people? Then you can use real blood... even the thin blood can't be recognized by its mother." ah."
Shen Mu: "Well...it's actually quite interesting."
Zhao Xu had a black question mark face.
"You see, the person who put this pot of water just added some ingredients. The two of us speculated and analyzed it for a long time, and looked like we were facing a big enemy. We came up with many possibilities and almost regarded it as An important prop," Shen Mu sighed, "Even if other people come here and don't check the water in the jug, they can still feel the taste of rust when they drink it, and they will think about it."
"But what's the point of this!" Zhao Xu was a little mad.
Shen Mu didn't know what to think of, and even showed a slight smile: "Don't you feel very happy?"
Zhao Xu was indifferent: I don't think so.
Since it's diluted blood, there won't be any adverse reactions other than psychological discomfort, but blood itself is a thing of the past... Is it my own blood, or...
Snapped! Zhao Xu, who was habitually kicking stones, kicked away something next to his feet. His feet felt a little wrong, so Zhao Xu stopped: "What is this?"
Zhao Xu bent down to pick up something that had been kicked aside.
This seems to be a leather rope, about as long as an adult's palm, and the wear at both ends seems to be fixed on something.
Shen Mu saw clearly what was in Zhao Xu's hands, and his eyes flashed: there was a similar leather rope on the wooden flute, which was hung on the wall like this.
Whose pendant fell off? How come here.
Zhao Xu looked at the leather rope in his hand, and looked at Shen Mu suspiciously, and Shen Mu also looked back suspiciously, Zhao Xu thought for a while, and put the leather rope into his pocket: "I don't know who dropped it. Let's ask."
…
After walking for a while, the sun has gradually slanted to the west from the top of the head, and the light has gradually changed from white to yellowish orange. And the top of the mountain was finally in sight.
From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain... Shen Mu estimated in his mind that it would take about five hours, not counting the stagnation time. The wooden house of himself and Zhao Xu was about a little above the middle on the south side of the mountain. Shen Mu glanced at the phone, it was already 4:30 in the afternoon.
I don’t know if the time when the wolf enters the night is based on the real sunset and sunrise, or it is fixed from 9:00 pm to 6:00 am, just in case, it is better to be careful.
"Phew... finally here!" Looking at the top of the mountain in front of him, Zhao Xu smiled, "Don't let us make this trip in vain, we're exhausted from walking all day."
Shen Mu nodded sympathetically: "Sweeping the map is really hard work."
The two approached the top of the mountain, and soon, Zhao Xu's worries were proved to be unfounded.
"... I think you are a wolf!" A sharp female voice suddenly raised its voice, piercing through the air and piercing the ears of Shen and Zhao. There were even fewer trees walking forward. Shen Mu and Zhao Xu tacitly lowered their steps and moved closer.
Going forward, we will reach the top. There is a small open space on the top of the mountain. Shen Mu and Zhao Xu are stuck behind a tree. It is difficult for the sparse tree to completely block the two grown men, but the two men who are talking on the top of the mountain are obviously not paying attention. Here, no one has been found coming.
From this point of view,
It can be roughly seen that the two talking are young men and women, although they don't know their relationship, the atmosphere in the air makes Shen Mu feel that the relationship between the two is not simple.
Could it be a couple
Another voice came to the ears of the two of them. It was a gentle male voice: "Chacha, calm down! The situation is not as good as being outside, don't be self-willed!"
"I'm self-willed?!" The female voice smiled instead of anger, "Lu Shimo, you touch your conscience, you say I'm self-willed?" The woman's voice was already unstable.